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advancemonkey
03-20-2003, 05:54 AM
we just hit a raid on Afganistan. Pentagon is saying it has somthing to do with Osama, very news filled day ain't it.
Relient J
03-20-2003, 05:56 AM
Do you have a link to that information?
advancemonkey
03-20-2003, 05:59 AM
no it was on the news, fox news.
advancemonkey
03-20-2003, 06:02 AM
they are saying it is the biggest raid in afganistan since when the 2 towers fell. WOW very news filled night.
advancemonkey
03-20-2003, 06:03 AM
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — About 1,000 U.S. troops launched a raid on villages in southeastern Afghanistan Wednesday night, hunting for members of the Al Qaeda terrorist network, military officials said.





Helicopters ferried troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to the remote, mountainous area as the hunt for Usama bin Laden and his terror network intensified.

U.S. military officials in Afghanistan only confirmed the operation was underway.

"I do not have anything to say about the Kandahar operation at this time," said Col. Roger King, U.S. army spokesman.

The troops left from their base in Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.

Radio transmissions had been detected coming from caves above the villages, said military officials in Washington .

It was the largest U.S. military operation in Afghanistan since Operation Anaconda just over a year ago. That eight-day battle involved hundreds of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters against thousands of American and allied Afghan troops.

There have been a series of raids on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the weeks since authorities captured Al Qaeda's No. 3 figure, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in Pakistan on March 1. Authorities have said Mohammed is giving information to U.S. interrogators and have said some of the subsequent arrests came as a result of Mohammed's capture.

Mohammed, an alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, is being interrogated by American officials at an undisclosed location.

The agents who captured him in a suburb of Islamabad found computers, mobile telephones, documents and other evidence that could help lead to other Al Qaeda members.

There have been increased attacks on Afghan government posts in southern Afghanistan in recent weeks. The authorities have blamed remnants of Taliban, Al Qaeda and loyalists of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a renegade rebel commander labeled a terrorist by the United States.
here you go, this is breaking http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81615,00.html
Relient J
03-20-2003, 06:08 AM
Interesting. I'm glad I'm on Spring Break and actually have time to watch TV this week.
Dwhitten
03-20-2003, 06:12 AM
advancemonkey don't triple or double post again or a 24 hour ban will be applied.
Supa_Nova
03-20-2003, 10:22 AM
so they caught him? intresting news...
Relient J
03-20-2003, 10:29 AM
They haven't said they've caught him yet. All we know now is that there was some U.S. military action in Afghanistan last night.
InuYasha99
03-21-2003, 02:06 AM
Originally posted by Supa_Nova
so they caught him? intresting news... we cant confirm tht we caught him some people r sayin hes dead but i heard he has body doubles
Michael Bluth
03-21-2003, 02:07 AM
I never heard that he was caught or dead, don't know where you got that from.
advancemonkey
03-23-2003, 12:14 AM
^^^ Sorry they were saying on Fox news that the strike had to do with Osama.